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filkertom ([personal profile] filkertom) wrote2009-08-06 05:42 am

Hiroshima

Sixty-four years ago today, the US detonated an atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. a few days later, they dropped another over Nagasaki.

May such weapons never be used again.

[identity profile] birder2.livejournal.com 2009-08-06 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
The story has been set to music in the song "Cranes over Hiroshima"--which I cannot hear (even in my head) without crying.

[identity profile] judifilksign.livejournal.com 2009-08-06 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Whenever I see Linda sign it, or I sign it myself, I end up with tears running down my cheeks.

[identity profile] angka.livejournal.com 2009-08-06 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I completely agree. I just learned how to sign it for our June WCCC concert. There were a couple teary eyes in the audience, and I had to fight not to cry myself during the performance. (I had singing to do in other songs, and it would have made that tough.)